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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian
Poet
Born:
Mar 20
,
1828
Died:
May 23
,
1906
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Hate
World
Fear
Community
Ours
Dreadful
Must
Mutual
Mutual Trust
Instead
Becoming
Proud
Confederation
Avoid
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Coretta Scott King
Community
Members
Most
Greatness
Accurately
Measured
Actions
Compassionate
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Cesar Chavez
Needs
Achievement
Progress
Prosperity
Ambition
Own
Community
Enough
Others
Broad
Our
Our Community
We Cannot
Ourselves
Must
Seek
About
Forget
Cannot
Aspirations
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I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
Thankful
History
Peace
Key
Safety
Car
Mind
Important
Community
Peace Of Mind
Lock
Delete
Invented
Computers
Most
House
Box
Am
Private
The Most Important
Order
Deposit
Boat
Bike
Your
Sanity
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
Haile Selassie
Courage
Men
Become
Community
Petty
Our
Members
Must
Spirit
Allegiance
More
Outlook
New
Fellow
Overcoming
Courageous
Fellow Men
Greater
Within
Ultimate
Been
Than
Owing
Human
Nations
Bigger
Race
Prejudice
Larger
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
Aretha Franklin
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People
Queen
Singing
Community
Civic
Diva
About
Well
Contributions
Being
Social
Much
Your
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
Positive
Life
Work
Kindness
Good
Gratitude
Happy
Charity
Key
Simple
Giving
Happy Life
Community
Good Life
Relationships
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Moods
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Connections
Expressing
Acts
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The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel
Time
Police
Welfare
Citizen
Community
Every
Incumbent
Members
Give
Only
Attention
Existence
Duties
Being
Which
Public
Interests
Paid
Full
Full-Time
Who
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy
Law
Community
Every
Society
Criminal
Kind
Law Enforcement
Insists
True
Equally
Gets
Enforcement
Deserves
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice
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Reality
Law
Submit
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Penalty
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Tells
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Highest
Over
Him
Arouse
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Order
Breaks
Who
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Conscience
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